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Muratori tra storia e religione. Atti della Giornata di studi muratoriani, Modena, 3 novembre 2020 ed. by Fabio Marri (review)

2023; The Catholic University of America Press; Volume: 109; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/cat.2023.a914166

1534-0708

Byzantine Studies and History

Reviewed by: Muratori tra storia e religione. Atti della Giornata di studi muratoriani, Modena, 3 novembre 2020 ed. by Fabio Marri Maria Teresa Fattori Muratori tra storia e religione. Atti della Giornata di studi muratoriani, Modena, 3 novembre 2020. Ed. Fabio Marri. [Biblioteca dell'Edizione Nazionale del Carteggio di L. A. Muratori –XV.] (Firenze, L. S. Olschki, 2021. Pp. vi, 254. €32,55. ISBN: 88-222-6778-8; EAN: 13- 978-8-822-26778-8.) This volume collects twelve essays dedicated to analyzing both Ludovico Antonio Muratori's works on theology and philosophy, as well as a number of his epistolary exchanges with scholars and intellectuals of his time on the same subjects (1672–1750). These essays were presented and discussed in the congress held in Modena on November 3, 2020, and they were collected by Fabio Marri, who is the director of the Centro studi Muratoriani. The majority of the authors are not academic scholars, but teachers and students of the Italian public school Liceo Muratori, currently housed in the building which was the Collegio San Carlo of the Jesuits, where the young Muratori studied. The introduction of Fabio Marri presents the state of the project of the national edition, intended to produce forty-six edited volumes of Muratori's letters and theological and moral treaties. Started in 1967, the national edition of Muratori's work is now at twenty-four of the forty-six planned volumes. The analysis of the manuscripts offers the opportunity to list the names of the 2054 persons in touch with Muratori and exchanging letters with him. The edition of the treaties has involved various authors in the project, and in 2020 it was also placed side by side with a digital edition of the catalogues of various public libraries of the city of Modena, included the Biblioteca Estense, which keep the manuscripts of the personal Muratori' s archive (https://lodovico.medialibrary.it/home/index.aspx). The index of the quoted names and the bibliography complete that part of the collection of the Biblioteca dell'Edizione nazionale del carteggio di L.A. Muratori. The first essay is by the bishop of Modena, Mons. Erio Castellucci, who writes on the treaty dedicated to the Christian charity, Della carità cristiana, edited for the first time in 1723, in Modena. Caterina Bonasegla and her students analyze the Governo della peste, read by the Italian romancier Alessandro Manzoni (the first edition was printed, by Muratori, in Modena in 1722); Donatella Ghermandi and her students present the theme of superstition based on the analysis of the Dissertazioni sopra le antichità italiane (Milan 1751) and the Della regolata divozion de' Cristiani (Venice 1747). Marta Soli, with the collaboration of Riccardo Pallotti, offers an analysis of the De Cognominum origine, in the third volume of the Dissertatione XLII (printed in 1740). Gabriele Burzacchini studies the Latin style adopted by Muratori in the early manuscript De Graecae Linguae usu et praestantia (it was printed for the first time by his nephew Giovan Francesco Soli Muratori in 1771), listing Muratori's specific choices in matter of spellings and lexicon, grammar and syntax. In a second article, Burzacchini presents the linguistic characteristics of Muratori as a writer in Greek, a study he undertook as a self-taught scholar when he was less than twenty years old. The short essay of Yi huo Jin compares the Italian translation of four letters written by German missionaries and the Italian translation made by Muratori in his Il Cristianesimo felice nelle missioni de' padri della Compagnia di Gesù nel Paraguai. [End Page 808] Corrado Viola examines the status and the progress of the projects advanced by the C.R.E.S. (Centro di ricerca sugli epistolari nel Settecento, Center for research on the eighteenth-century epistolary of the University of Verona), and the Centro studi muratoriano di Modena. One of the most interesting essays is by Angelo Colombo: he reconstructs the dispute over the presumed mortal remains of Saint Augustine, discussed by Giusto Fontanini, Muratori, and other scholars between 1728 and 1730. Francesca Maria Crasta looks at the diverse philosophical aspects of the Christian reflection, presented by the volumes Forze dell'intendimento umano and Forza della fantasia umana...